i had a simler idea! only it was a dragon, and green, but the angle was close to this!

Love the color scheme too! But maybe not in the same way...

Yellow is just a good all out choice for light, and it's such an opposite to the deep violet/purple-ness. Err, it makes the highlights stand out a ton. And the figure has a lot of pure shade... so I guess if you wanted to keep any form at all and have no linework, that's the way to go. I think you used white on the eye, perhaps? But either way, the backlighting that kicks in at the bottom is a nice touch. The way you put in a bit of it on the tail, but avoid backlighting the right wing sorta has me going "huh?" but no biggie. the left wing seems a little more proper, to have little or no light under it.

The leg and tail and eye are easily my favorite parts. Man, brilliant... for such a tall image, you make it easy to take the whole thing in. I mean, distant and well lit meets up close and dark from the top to the bottom.

I wonder if there were some clever details you didn't get a chance to put in? I notice you went over some areas and put in little lines here and there. If you ever revisit this guy, I've love to know.

Really grand job :D